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Greg Clark, the business secretary, follows four men for every woman on TwitterGetty Images

Greg Clark may have overseen the gender pay gap investigation but he has failed to notice a gender gap of his own: he doesn’t follow any female cabinet ministers on Twitter apart from Theresa May.

The oversight by the business secretary means he missed the chance this week to read tweets from his female colleagues on violent crime, pensions, universal credit and British aid.

He does follow Boris Johnson, Philip Hammond, Matt Hancock, Sajid Javid, Brandon Lewis and Jeremy Hunt, along with another 15 male Conservative MPs. Of the 275 accounts he follows, three out of four belong to men.

Only six MPs follow a lower proportion of women on the social media network, according to a Times analysis. Worldwide, 46 per cent of Twitter…